Hi Chipmunkdavis, I think a while back you were interested in helping people learn to edit. If you're still interested could you please email me at richard.nevellwikimedia.org.uk Thank you, Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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I'm wondering if you are interesting in reviewing the article on Kingdom of Singapura as you have contributed to articles on Singapore before, also the issue is related to the founding of Malacca Sultanate, therefore indirectly connected to Malaysian History. I'm currently inviting reviews for the article - Wikipedia:Peer review/Kingdom of Singapura/archive1. The reason is mainly because I believe it needs to be overhauled, but it may not be easy because of the extensive amount that's written already, therefore I would like suggestions (or even edits) that can improve it. The main problem is the uncertainty in the history and what appears to be skewing of the narrative (some points raised in Talk:Kingdom of Singapura). Historians believe that many of the kings may be mythical, but the article is written in a way that is skewed towards the view that they are real. Suggestions or edits would be welcome. Hzh (talk) 16:26, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for WP:WIKIHOUNDING and your care, but if you are not aware of tourism topics, please stop your willful reverts. Wiki has talk page and in case you want to help me, you can go there and discuss. --g. balaxaZe★ 15:55, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Do you know what is this ►[1]? This is the main annual report for those who work with tourism. If one wants to understand where is that country by tourism they always use and search in this report and it is very important to give people information where is Georgia by UN WTO classification and how strong or weak it is in its sub-region. Is is so hard to understand? --g. balaxaZe★ 17:07, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikiepdia articles are not only for those who have no idea about tourism organizations or indusdtry and are looking only for beautiful images or descriptions. --g. balaxaZe★ 17:10, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Also, in WP:BRD cleary said Consider reverting only when necessary. BRD does not encourage reverting, but recognizes that reverts will happen. Only thing that you like to do is reverting other user contribution even when it is not necessary! --g. balaxaZe★ 17:13, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

It's a lot of assertions, but I do indeed fail to see the importance of specifying rankings within the way the UNWTO classifies its work. National bodies don't coordinate activities or advertise as by subregion or anything like that. Regarding BRD, your response does seem to miss the point. It also appears to beg the question of whether a reversion is necessary, a question of which I would be interested in your answer. I will also again ask you to desist in yet another instance of using admins as a threat, it's a tiring pattern. CMD (talk) 01:49, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

I really do not like to talk about other people and that is why I rarely use admins help. I know that you are checking my edits (even archiving at the same time :)) and etc. but there should be another solution than confrontation. Maybe you do no know but I am studying tourism in my university and we use that report almost in every presentation or statistics. I see that majority of tourism articles in Wikipedia has low quality and we do not have the best example of tourism article, but since UN WTO is really the most (maybe only) important organization in tourism, it works with national governments it shares what standards they must have and in general does a lot of staff, their classification is important from the tourism studies view. It is like a biological classification of creatures. You may think that I want to use it just because it says Georgia is in Europe but I don't care about that, I am not crazy about Georgias European or not European status because if you want my opinion we are only Caucasians. I really want to find a solution with you, please try to convince yourself that what I am saying has nothing with promotion but only with an academic view.--g. balaxaZe★ 10:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

p.s. I opened admins noticeboard and almost started writing about the case, but in the end, I decided to try luck and find a solution without them, I hope for mutual understanding. Don't think that my words are only words without acting.--g. balaxaZe★ 11:09, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

If you don't want to use admins, don't throw around admins as threats. This is not the first time you've done it. For the record, I am not checking your edits, and if you don't want confrontation, I would recommend being less confrontational. Following the guidelines I've repeatedly pointed you towards would help towards this. If you don't want your words to be disassociated with your actions, than line them up. For example, if you aren't crazy about European "status", don't remove categories saying otherwise.

As for the content, most of our tourism articles are low quality. This does not mean a map which tells the reader nothing about Tourism in Georgia helps the article, and our articles are not intended as academic guides or as textbooks. Grouping countries is not remotely equatable to cladistics, but even if it was, that would not mean every species article would need to discuss its place within its family. (Those which have a special reason to be supported by regular secondary sources doing so would of course have an argument for.) CMD (talk) 13:31, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok, your attitude is clear, as I said above now I'll use another option. At least it is clear that I tried to convince you and find solution.--g. balaxaZe★ 14:43, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

This is another example of you quickly abandoning a talkpage discussion instead of discussing (albeit not on an article talkpage). CMD (talk) 01:19, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

@NeilN, diffs were provided, do they demonstrate a problem? CMD (talk) 17:13, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

I looked at the diffs and they indicate a bit of a battleground attitude and inappropriate accusations of wikihounding. No one has proposed sanctions so it's unlikely it will get that far. If no one else chimes in soon I will close with appropriate warnings/advice to Giorgi Balakhadze. --NeilNtalk to me 17:21, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Whatever you feel is appropriate to stop the disruption is fine with me. Best, CMD (talk) 09:20, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

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Just noticed some more evasion by Satt 2. Same geo-location, same edits, same edit summaries, same concerns. Clear cut. Should I make another section at AN? - LouisAragon (talk) 17:21, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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We are students writing an article on COPREDAL as part of our class Academic Discourse and Writing at Tec de Monterrey. Since you are an experienced Wikipedian and have an interest in these kind of topics, we would like to know if you could take a few moments to take a look at the article and give us feedback. Thank you for your time. --Castañeda.M (talk) 21:24, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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1.When you first welcomed me to WP, was it part of a program for seasoned WPians to mentor tyro editors? 2. Would you seriously consider a less awkward method of text comm's, such as setting up a personal WP specific email address and using it to text/chat via something akin to goog.chat/hangouts? I have a series of questions concerning WPedit., both, in form and content also specific WP hierarchical niceties and etiquette. 3. If your answer to my 2nd question is a robust "No", and you are somewhat appalled at my suggestion, you must endure a long series of posts on my part (absolutely, no threat intended) with concerns re: the mundane WP, to the highly charged (in my opinion) WP political issues both in and out of WP. My email address is bjhodge8@ gmail.com if your response is in the affirmative. Although I am concerned with security, the wall between email and personal info (PI) is firm enough for the average idiot like me. If the Hack is determined, securing your email@ and PI are child's play, despite elaborate and costly security. Bjhodge8 (talk) 21:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

1) I welcomed you on an individual basis, although there are programmes out there for mentoring.

2) There is a Wikipedia:IRC, but I don't use it. I keep most relevant information on wikipedia talkpages.

3) I am happy to answer posts here, no problem, if you have not had them answered in the intervening months. I'm sure email is secure, but I feel it more in the Wikipedia spirit to hang out on these public pages whenever useful.

Hi. The local elections are scheduled for 15 August. Along with the municipality elections, is a "decentralization election". The latter election is under a new decentralization law that establishes governorate councils with limited legislative powers, aimed primarily at organizing governorate development plans. Does this deserve a separate article from Jordanian local election, 2017? If so what named should it have? Barely any coverage of this in English media, yet. But I have read some info in Arabic media.. Also if you seem interested in developing this/these article/articles soon? I will start working on them in a month, any comments are appreciated. Makeandtoss (talk) 12:29, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi Makeandtoss. Sorry I've been away so long. Hope your work is going well. I haven't read much at all about these elections. As you have, I would recommend seeing what the external sources say. If the elections are not usually discussed separately, then they could be put on the same article. If they seem to be discussed entirely apart, different articles makes more sense. In the end, it's easy enough to split/merge them at later points if that makes sense once they're all over. I'd personally keep them together initially and split if that becomes the obvious solution at that time, but it's not important. I'm definitely happy to look over the articles, but I'm afraid I won't be any help with arabic sources! CMD (talk) 00:41, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

The elections concluded yesterday, here's the article Jordanian local elections, 2017. Can you patrol the article and help out if I missed anything, as there are several English articles. --Makeandtoss (talk) 04:46, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

In case you are still unaware of this discussion, there is a new discussion for renaming New York to New York (state). As you participated in the previous discussion on this topic, you may want to express your opinion in the new disussion. עוד מישהוOd Mishehu 04:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. The articles done may also count towards the ongoing challenge. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles please add them to the sub lists by continent at Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:15, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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Chinese New Year
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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival in modern Mainland China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Celebrations traditionally run from the preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between 21 January and 20 February, in 2017, the first day of the Chinese New Year was on Saturday,28 January, initiating the year of the Rooster. The New Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths, traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is considered a holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese New Year vary widely, often, the evening preceding Chinese New Years Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to clean the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune. Windows and doors are decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of fortune or happiness, wealth. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes, in about one third of the Mainland population, or 500 million Northerners, dumplings feature prominently in the meals celebrating the festival. It is one of the worlds most prominent and celebrated festivals, the lunisolar Chinese calendar determines the date of Chinese New Year. In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese Lunar New Year begins at the new moon that falls between 21 January and 20 February, the median date of Chinese New Years Day is lichun on 4 or 5 February, the solar term next to Dahan. In the Chinese calendar, winter solstice must occur in the 11th month, to determine whether a year has an intercalary month, one only needs to check whether Chinese New Year is within the month of January. The Gregorian Calendar dates for Chinese New Year from 1912 to 2101 are below, along with the years presiding animal zodiac, the traditional Chinese calendar follows a Metonic cycle, and returns to the same date in Gregorian calendar roughly. The names of the Earthly Branches have no English counterparts and are not the Chinese translations of the animals, alongside the 12-year cycle of the animal zodiac there is a 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. Each of the ten heavenly stems is associated with one of the five elements of Chinese astrology, namely, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, the elements are rotated every two years while a yin and yang association alternates every year. The elements are distinguished, Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire. These produce a cycle that repeats every 60 years. For example, the year of the Yang Fire Rat occurred in 1936, many people inaccurately calculate their Chinese birth-year by converting it from their Gregorian birth-year

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Tropical Storm Vamei
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Tropical Storm Vamei was a Pacific tropical cyclone that formed closer to the equator than any other tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. The last storm of the 2001 Pacific typhoon season, Vamei developed on December 26 at 1. 4° N in the South China Sea and it strengthened quickly and made landfall along extreme southeastern Peninsular Malaysia. Vamei rapidly dissipated over Sumatra on December 28, and the remnants eventually re-organized in the North Indian Ocean. Though Vamei was officially designated as a storm, its intensity is disputed, some agencies classify it as a typhoon, based on sustained winds of 140 km/h. The storm brought flooding and landslides to eastern Peninsular Malaysia, causing $3.6 million in damage, the vortex drifted southwestward, reaching open water by December 21. The northerly air surge was deflected after interacting with the circulation, by December 25, an area of scattered convection persisted about 370 km east of Singapore within an area of low wind shear, in association with the low-level circulation. This was the first recorded occurrence of a cyclone near the equator. Shortly thereafter, an eye with a 39 km diameter became apparent on satellite imagery, along with rainbands extending southward to the opposite side of the equator. At 0600 UTC, the JMA first classified the system as Tropical Storm Vamei, about 65 km northeast of Singapore, the storm was small and compact, with gales extending about 45 km from its center. At about 0830 UTC on December 27, Vamei made landfall approximately 60 km northeast of Singapore, initially, the Malaysian Meteorological Department classified the cyclone as a tropical storm, though it was later re-assessed as a typhoon at landfall. The JTWC initially maintained it as a tropical storm, though the agency downgraded the storm to depression status as the center again approached land. Early on December 28, Vamei moved ashore along northeastern Sumatra, however, convection persisted near the circulation over land, believed to have been caused by the process known as upper-level diffluence. On December 29, what was believed to be a separate system reached the southeastern Bay of Bengal. Vamei formed and reached storm strength at 1. 5º N. This broke the record of Typhoon Sarah in the 1956 Pacific typhoon season. Due to a lack of Coriolis effect near the equator, the formation of Vamei was previously considered impossible, however, a study by the Naval Postgraduate School indicated that the probability for a similar equatorial development was at least once every four centuries. Vamei developed in a vortex that appears every winter along the northwest coast of Borneo and is maintained by the interaction between monsoonal winds and the local topography. Often, the remains near the coastline, and in an analysis of 51 winters

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Lee Chong Wei
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Dato Lee Chong Wei DSPN DB DCSM is a Malaysian professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012, Lee is triple silver medalist at the Olympic Games, and the sixth Malaysian to win an Olympic medal. He won his first silver medal in 2008, also the first time a Malaysian had reached the finals in the singles event. This achievement earned him the title Dato, and led to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak describing him as a national hero and he repeated the achievement twice more in 2012 and 2016, thus making him the most successful Malaysian Olympian in history. Lee was born in Bagan Serai, Perak, to a Malaysian Chinese family, in his early years, he favoured basketball, however his mother soon banned him from the game due to the searing heat of the outdoor basketball court. Lee began to learn badminton at the age of 11, when his father, attracting the attention of a local coach, the coach asked Lees father if he could take him as a student. After receiving his fathers consent, the coach began to train Lee after school, discovered by Misbun Sidek, he was drafted into the national squad when he was seventeen years old. Lee received RM300,000 on 21 August 2008, as a reward for his silver medal effort in the 2008 Olympic Games, also, he received RM3,000 a month as a lifetime pension beginning in August 2008. For the same achievement, he was conferred with a Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri and he was appointed as the UNICEF Malaysias National Ambassador in February 2009. He was in a relationship with Wong Mew Choo, his teammate, in 2009, Lee and Wong announced they are no longer together during the 2009 World Championships in Hyderabad, India. However, Lee announced his reconciliation with Mew Choo after winning a medal in 2012 Summer Olympics. They were married on 9 November 2012, and had two children, Kingston and Terrance, which were born in April 2013 and July 2015 respectively. On 16 March 2011, Lee received Permodalan Nasional Berhad shares worth RM100,000 from Najib Tun Razak soon after his triumph in the All England Open and he was appointed as KDU University College ambassador on 31 July 2011. Lees autobiography Dare to be a Champion was officially published on 18 January 2012, on 5 July 2012, Lee was conferred the rank of Lieutenant commander of the Royal Malaysian Navy Volunteer Reserve Unit. On 7 October 2016, Lee was promoted to the rank of honorary Commander of the Royal Malaysian Navy Volunteer Reserve Unit in recognition of his success at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. On 15 October 2016, Lee was made a recipient of Darjah Cemerlang Seri Melaka carrying the title of Datuk Wira from Malacca Governor Mohd Khalil Yaakob. Lee picked up one title in 2002 and 2003, reaching the final of the 2003 Malaysia Open where he was defeated by Chen Hong of China. Lee then secured two titles in 2004, the Malaysia Open and the Chinese Taipei Open, Lee gained a spot for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens

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Muhammad V of Kelantan
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Muhammad V is the 15th and the current Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and the Sultan of Kelantan. He was proclaimed Sultan of Kelantan on 13 September 2010, succeeding his father, Sultan Ismail Petra and he was proclaimed as Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 13 December 2016. Born Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra ibni Sultan Ismail Petra in Kota Bharu and he attended St Cross College, Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for diplomatic studies, graduating in 1991. In May 2009, his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, suffered a major stroke, Sultan Ismail Petra was admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore and Faris was appointed Regent on 25 May in the Sultans absence. In January 2010, the High Court rejected Fakhrys application, in another twist, Sultan Ismail Petras private secretary declared Succession Council chairman Tengku Abdul Aziz Tengku Mohd Hamzah as Regent. The appointment was challenged by Faris in court and he took the regnal name Muhammad V. However, his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, has petitioned the Federal Court to declare his appointment unconstitutional. Sultan Ismail Petra is still recovering from the stroke he suffered in 2009, Muhammad V attended the 222nd Meeting of the Conference of Rulers for the first time as a full member in October 2010. This marked the recognition of his accession as Sultan by other rulers, Sultan Muhammad V was elected Deputy Yang Di-Pertuan Agong on October 2011. He served in that post from 13 December 2011 until his election as Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 13 December 2016, Sultan Muhammad V was elected by the Conference of Rulers on 14 October 2016 to become the next Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state of Malaysia. His reign began on 13 December 2016, taking over from Abdul Halim, at 47, Sultan Muhammad V is the fourth youngest Yang di-Pertuan Agong to be elected, after Putra of Perlis, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu and Tuanku Abdul Halim of Kedah. He is the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong in the history to reign without a consort or the Raja Permaisuri Agong. His younger brother, Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra, the Tengku Mahkota, as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, he holds full responsibility as Commander-in-Chief of the Malaysian Armed Forces. He also holds the responsibility as the Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Artillery Regiment, Malaysian Army

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Kingdom of Singapura
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The Kingdom of Singapura was a Malay kingdom thought to exist on the island of Singapore from 1299 until its fall in 1398. Archaeological evidence from Fort Canning and the banks of the Singapore River has nevertheless demonstrated the existence of a thriving settlement. The settlement developed in the 13th or 14th century and rose from a small Srivijayan trading outpost into a centre of trade with ties to the Yuan Dynasty. It was however claimed by two powers at that time, Ayuthaya from the north and Majapahit from the south. The last king, Parameswara or Iskandar Shah, fled to the west coast of the Malay Peninsula to establish the Malacca Sultanate in 1400, the name Singapura is derived from Sanskrit meaning Lion City. Singa comes from the Sanskrit word siṃha, which means lion, according to the Malay Annals, Sri Tri Buana and his men were exploring Tanjong Bemban while in Bintan when he spotted an island with white sandy beach from a high point. On learning that the island was called Temasek, they set sail for the island, after they managed to land safely on the island, they went to hunt for wild animals. He suddenly saw a strange animal with an red body, black head and it was a fine-looking animal and moved with great speed as it disappeared into the jungle. He asked his minister, Demang Lebar Daun, what animal it was. He then decided to stay in Temasek, named the city he founded Singapura or Lion City. Some scholars thought that the person Sri Tri Buana and the story of its founding to be fictional, and a number of alternative suggestions for the origin of the name of Singapore have been given. In this version of events, Parameswara had assassinated the local ruler of Temasek and usurped the throne, others linked the name to the Javanese kingdom Singhasari as well as a Majapahit Buddhist sect whose adherents were referred to as lions. Although it is believed that the name Singapura replaced Temasek some time in the 14th century, there is basically only one record which give some detail on the kingdoms of Singapura - the Malay Annals written during the heyday of Melaka and re-compiled in 1612 by the Johor court. It is the basis for accounts of its founding, the succession of rulers, however, Iskandar Shah/Parameswara, the last ruler of Singapura and founder of the Melaka Sultanate, is a figure that could be considered factual. Accounts of Singapura in its final years are also given in Portuguese sources, such as those by Tomé Pires, Brás de Albuquerque, Godinho de Erédia. For example the Suma Oriental, written shortly after the Portuguese conquest of Melaka, however, both accounts differ markedly when Suma Oriental identified the fleeing prince and the last king of Singapura as the same person known as Parameswara. On the other hand, the more detailed Malay Annals identified the fleeing prince, Portuguese source also named Iskandar Shah as Parameswaras son, Ming sources similar named Iskandar Shah as the second ruler of Melaka. There are also different opinions and many now accept Megat Iskandar Shah as the son of Parameswara, Wang also mentioned that the Siamese attacked the fortified city of Temasek with around 70 ships a few years before he visited, but Temasek successfully resisted the attack which lasted a month

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Singapore
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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the Lion City or the Little Red Dot, is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the tip of peninsular Malaysia. Singapores territory consists of one island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its size by 23%. During the Second World War, Singapore was occupied by Japan, after early years of turbulence, and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland, the nation developed rapidly as an Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its workforce. Singapore is a global commerce, finance and transport hub, the country has also been identified as a tax haven. Singapore ranks 5th internationally and first in Asia on the UN Human Development Index and it is ranked highly in education, healthcare, life expectancy, quality of life, personal safety, and housing, but does not fare well on the Democracy index. Although income inequality is high, 90% of homes are owner-occupied, 38% of Singapores 5.6 million residents are permanent residents and other foreign nationals. There are four languages on the island, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil. English is its language, most Singaporeans are bilingual. Singapore is a multiparty parliamentary republic, with a Westminster system of unicameral parliamentary government. The Peoples Action Party has won every election since self-government in 1959, however, it is unlikely that lions ever lived on the island, Sang Nila Utama, the Srivijayan prince said to have founded and named the island Singapura, perhaps saw a Malayan tiger. There are however other suggestions for the origin of the name, the central island has also been called Pulau Ujong as far back as the third century CE, literally island at the end in Malay. In 1299, according to the Malay Annals, the Kingdom of Singapura was founded on the island by Sang Nila Utama and these Indianized Kingdoms, a term coined by George Cœdès were characterized by surprising resilience, political integrity and administrative stability. In 1613, Portuguese raiders burned down the settlement, which by then was part of the Johor Sultanate. The wider maritime region and much trade was under Dutch control for the following period, in 1824 the entire island, as well as the Temenggong, became a British possession after a further treaty with the Sultan. In 1826, Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements, under the jurisdiction of British India, prior to Raffles arrival, there were only about a thousand people living on the island, mostly indigenous Malays along with a handful of Chinese. By 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000, many of these early immigrants came to work on the pepper and gambier plantations

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UTC
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Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated to UTC, is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean time at 0° longitude. It is one of closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, the first Coordinated Universal Time was informally adopted on 1 January 1960. This change also adopted leap seconds to simplify future adjustments, a number of proposals have been made to replace UTC with a new system that would eliminate leap seconds, but no consensus has yet been reached. Leap seconds are inserted as necessary to keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of universal time, see the Current number of leap seconds section for the number of leap seconds inserted to date. The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC and this abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT, while French speakers proposed TUC, the compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time. Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, the westernmost time zone uses UTC−12, being twelve hours behind UTC, the easternmost time zone, theoretically, uses UTC+12, being twelve hours ahead of UTC. In 1995, the nation of Kiribati moved those of its atolls in the Line Islands from UTC-10 to UTC+14 so that the country would all be on the same day. UTC is used in internet and World Wide Web standards. The Network Time Protocol, designed to synchronise the clocks of computers over the internet, computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC as it is more specific than GMT. If only limited precision is needed, clients can obtain the current UTC from a number of official internet UTC servers, for sub-microsecond precision, clients can obtain the time from satellite signals. UTC is also the standard used in aviation, e. g. for flight plans. Weather forecasts and maps all use UTC to avoid confusion about time zones, the International Space Station also uses UTC as a time standard. Amateur radio operators often schedule their radio contacts in UTC, because transmissions on some frequencies can be picked up by many time zones, UTC is also used in digital tachographs used on large goods vehicles under EU and AETR rules. UTC divides time into days, hours, minutes and seconds, days are conventionally identified using the Gregorian calendar, but Julian day numbers can also be used. Each day contains 24 hours and each hour contains 60 minutes, the number of seconds in a minute is usually 60, but with an occasional leap second, it may be 61 or 59 instead

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Bandar Sunway
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Sunway is a township in Subang Jaya, Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. The township is governed by the MPSJ and partially by the MBPJ, köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical rainforest. Sunway has a number of options for tourists and business travellers. Sunway Pyramid is a shopping centre opened in July 1997 as Malaysias first themed shopping, one of the malls most easily recognised designs is the Egyptian-inspired Pyramid with a lion standing guard at the entrance. The rest of the building is embellished in the style, complete with pseudo-hieroglyphics decorating facades. Sunway Pyramid was the shopping mall in Malaysia to have an indoor ice skating rink. In the center of Sunway is the amusement park Sunway Lagoon, which has many different themed parks, including some of the biggest rides in Malaysia, there are other notable schools in Sunway which are SK Bandar Sunway, SMK Bandar Sunway and Sunway International School. Healthcare in Sunway is provided by private hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway comprises many other companies and residences not owned by the Sunway group. Places of worship include Masjid Al-Husna, which is located right opposite Sunway Pyramid and Masjid Al-Amin, the township is also served by an urban-suburb rail link, the Subang Jaya Komuter station. Bandar Sunway is where the BRT Sunway Line is located and it connects the KD08 Setia Jaya Komuter station in the north until the KJ31 USJ7 LRT Station in the south, passing through Sunway Mentari, Sunway Pyramid and Monash University in the process. Sunway Monorail operated in Bandar Sunway from 2000 to 2007, the system has since been shut down due to the expansion of the Sunway Pyramid 2, and part of its infrastructure were later incorporated into the BRT line. Alternately, there are bus services connecting Sunway Pyramid to KJ28 KD09 Subang Jaya Komuter station. The Subang Airport is 13 kilometres from this development, Bandar Sunway is located near the junction of the LDP and KL-Port Klang Federal Highway. Motorists coming from Puchong, Putrajaya and even Seremban will opt for the LDP, a few kilometres south lies another interchange, this time between the LDP and KESAS, which connects Pandamaran near Port Klang to Sri Petaling. Running directly in front of Sunway Pyramid mall is the NPE, Bandar Sunway falls under the Kelana Jaya constituency of the Malaysian Parliament, currently held by Wong Chen of the PKR. On the state level, Bandar Sunway is represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly as part of the Subang Jaya constituency, the incumbent assemblywoman for Subang Jaya is Hannah Yeoh of the DAP

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Petaling Jaya
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Petaling Jaya is a major Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur. It is located in the Petaling District of Selangor with an area of approximately 97.2 square kilometres, Petaling Jaya was granted city status on 20 June 2006. Petaling Jaya is surrounded by the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur to the east, Sungai Buloh to the north, the capital of Selangor, Shah Alam to the west and Subang Jaya to the south. The city was developed during British Malaya on a piece of 1,200 acres rubber estate around Old Klang Road to address the overpopulation of the capital Kuala Lumpur in the 1950s, since 1952, PJ witnessed a dramatic growth in terms of population size and geographical importance. The development of Petaling Jaya commenced in 1952 with the construction of 800 houses centred on the known as “Old Town” today. The first two roads built in Petaling Jaya were simply called Jalan 1 or Road 1 and Jalan 2 or Road 2. Road 1 was later named Jalan Templer while Road 2 was named Jalan Othman after Othman Mohamad, until the end of 1953, the town was administered by the Kuala Lumpur district officer. The Petaling Jaya Town Authority headed by N. A. J, kennedy commenced administrating Petaling Jaya in 1954. On 24 August 1959, Encik Abdul Aziz bin Haji Mohd Ali became the first Malayan to head the PJ Authority, administratively and historically, it was considered part of Kuala Lumpur. However, Petaling Jaya ceased to be part of Kuala Lumpur when the became a Federal Territory on 1 February 1974. It then became a township in its own right within the state of Selangor, PJ South, from Section 8 to PJ Old Town, had the first settlements, which were established around 1953. As development progressed, PJ North, on the side of the Federal Highway was developed. The first shopping complex in Petaling Jaya was Jaya Shopping Centre, located in Section 14, on 1 January 1977, the Petaling Jaya Town Authority was upgraded to become Petaling Jaya Municipal Council or Majlis Perbandaran Petaling Jaya. Petaling Jaya progressed rapidly due to the massive rural-urban migration, as more people from rural areas immigrated, Sungai Way and Subang districts along with areas such as Subang Jaya, Seksyen 52 developed in areas under the jurisdiction of the municipality. Petaling Jaya is the hub of Klang Valley as it is located in between Kuala Lumpur and surrounding suburbs. Petaling Jaya is one of the wettest cities in Malaysia and it is warm with an average maximum of 30 degrees Celsius and receives heavy rainfall all year round, roughly more than 3,300 mm of average rainfall annually. The city has no true dry season, but June. Mostly each month average rainfall more than 200 mm. Thunderstorms and extreme rainstorms are common

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Selangor
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Selangor /səˈlæŋə/ also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or Abode of Sincerity is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and it surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were previously part of Selangor. The state capital is Shah Alam, however the first city in Selangor, another major urban centre is Petaling Jaya which was awarded city status on 20 June 2006. Selangor is one of only two Malaysian states with more than one city, the other is Sarawak, Selangor has the largest city in Malaysia and it is growing rapidly due to modernisation in the Klang Valley. The state of Selangor has the largest economy in Malaysia in terms of domestic product with RM128.815 billion in 2010 making up 23% of the total GDP of Malaysia. This state is also the most developed in Malaysia with good infrastructure such as highways, the state also has the largest population in Malaysia, with a high standard of living and the states poverty rate is the lowest in the country. A more plausible theory claims the name is derived from the term Selang Ur meaning land of the straits Aur also means river in Malay. Hence, Selangor may mean river straits, a major problem with this hypothesis is that the word selang does not in fact mean strait in Malay, not even in obsolete usage according to the Kamus Dewan, the proper word for strait is selat. Another possible origin of the name is combination of the words Sela. It may be possible that the banks of the Selangor River was full of bamboo groves in the distant past, however bamboo do not grow well in the marshy soil of the lower reaches of the river. It is also possible that the word Selangor is an Orang Asli term as some rivers have Orang Asli names, in the 15th century, Selangor was ruled by the Sultanate of Malacca. After the fall of Malacca to the Portuguese in 1511, the area became disputed between the Portuguese, Johor, Aceh and Siam. When the Dutch displaced the Portuguese from Malacca in 1641, they brought in Muslim Bugis mercenaries from Sulawesi and they established the present hereditary sultanate in 1740. In many districts, Bugis settlers displaced the Minangkabau settlers from Sumatra, in the 19th century, the economy boomed due to the exploitation of huge tin reserves. In 1854, the Sultan of Selangor granted Raja Abdullah the control of Klang, passing over Raja Mahdi and this would eventually led to the Selangor Civil War of 1867 to 1874, which was essentially a struggle for control of the revenues from tin. Tin Mining also attracted an influx of Chinese migrant labourers. Chinese secret clan societies, allied with Selangor chiefs, fought for control of the tin mines, in 1874, Sultan Adbul Samad of Selangor accepted a British Resident in a system allowed the British to govern while the Sultan remained the apparent ruler. Under the stability imposed by the British, Selangor again prospered, the Federated Malay States evolved into the Federation of Malaya in 1948, which became independent in 1957, and Malaysia in 1963

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Sunway Group
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Sunway Group or Sunway Berhad is a Malaysian conglomerate company. It was formed following a merger between Sunway City Berhad and Sunway Holdings Berhad on 23 August 2011, Sunway Holdings Incorporated Berhad commenced operations in 1986, mainly to develop the Bandar Sunway township in Petaling Jaya. It was listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad on 16 February 1984, Sunway Group is led by its founder, Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah. Following the success of the Sunway Resort City township, the Group diversified into property investment, leisure and entertainment, hospitality, today Sunway maintains property development and construction as its two core businesses and key contributors to profitability. Most notable subsidiaries located close to the headquarters in Bandar Sunway and these include two main hotels, Sunway Resort Hotel and Spa and the Pyramid Tower Hotel. Other tourism-related facilities include the Sunway Pyramid shopping mall, Sunway Lagoon theme park, various beverage and entertainment outlets, Bandar Sunway also includes higher education facilities such as Monash University Malaysia and Sunway University. Sunway Group is the owner of the Campus. Sunway Group is also the parent company of Sunway Education Group of institutions, Sunway Group is also the parent company of Totalrubber Ltd, an industrial plastics and rubber supplier based in Hallam, Australia. Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa is one of the largest hotel developments in Greater Kuala Lumpur, integrating a complex of five hotels with 1,234 guestrooms, suites, luxury villas, in 1997 Sunway Group purchased Wonderland Sydney. Only one ride, Skyrider which was the cable car at the Sydney Showgrounds, was added between the 1997 takeover and the parks closure. The Sydney Morning Herald stated that Sunway Group blames Wonderlands demise on everything except poor management, Sunway Pyramid Sunway Putra Mall Sunway Lagoon Official site Sunway Groups property and real estate investments. Totalrubber Ltd - part of the Sunway Group

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Bukit Bintang
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Bukit Bintang is the shopping and entertainment district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It encompasses Jalan Bukit Bintang and its surrounding areas. The area has long been Kuala Lumpurs most prominent retail belt that is home to many shopping centres, al-fresco cafés, bars, night markets. This area is popular among tourists and locals, especially among the youths, a part of Bintang Walk is designated as an Arab Street. Nestled within Kuala Lumpurs Golden Triangle, the Bukit Bintang district begins with Bukit Bintang Road which starts at Raja Chulan Road, the two other roads that border the Bukit Bintang district are Sultan Ismail Road which intersects it and Imbi Road at the south. Walter Grenier Road, Bulan Road, Changkat Bukit Bintang and Alor Road are considered part of the entertainment district, tong Shin Road in Bukit Bintang was the focal point of the Malaysias deadly May 13 race riots. Back in the late 1980s, corporate magnate Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay proposed a retail cluster in Kuala Lumpur. He started retail developments in this area through a conglomerate YTL Corporation, Bintang Walk refers to the more developed stretch along the main Bukit Bintang Road and Sultan Ismail Road roads, with the intersection of these two roads as its axis. This place has been transformed over the last 5 years to one of the most trendy. Upscale cafes, restaurants and clubs continue to make their presence felt here, on weekends, thousands of locals as well as tourists throng Bintang Walk and its shopping centres. Many major nightlife events take place such as the New Years countdown, Merdeka eve celebrations, street concerts. The annual Malaysian F1 Grand Prix pit stop and Guinness St Patricks Day Celebrations are held here too, there are two major annual fashion events held here annually. The STYLO Fashion week as well as the annual glitzy Malaysia International Fashion Week, Bukit Bintang is one of the citys shopping districts. Imbi is an area located near Bukit Bintang and being a popular tourist spot. The Berjaya Times Square shopping complex and hotel is located in Imbi, Imbi Road is the main road running through this area. Berjaya Times Square is currently the 13th biggest shopping mall in the world boasting 12 levels of retail with a total of 3,500,000 square feet. Although it was aimed at the upper-echelon of society, it is currently positioned as a middle-class shopping mall offering youth fashion targeted at the younger crowds. For entertainment, it has the largest indoor theme park in Malaysia located on the 5th and 7th floors of the building, starhill Gallery is probably the ritziest and most luxurious mall in the whole of Kuala Lumpur, alongside Suria KLCC

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Kuala Lumpur
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Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, or more commonly called KL is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city. Being rated as an Alpha world city, Kuala Lumpur is the global city in Malaysia which covers an area of 243 km2 and has an estimated population of 1.73 million as of 2016. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an agglomeration of 7.25 million people as of 2017. It is among the fastest growing regions in South-East Asia, in terms of population. Kuala Lumpur is the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, the city was once home to the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, but they were moved to Putrajaya in early 1999. Some sections of the judiciary still remain in the city of Kuala Lumpur. The official residence of the Malaysian King, the Istana Negara, is situated in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is the cultural, financial and economic centre of Malaysia due to its position as the capital as well as being a key city. Kuala Lumpur is one of three Federal Territories of Malaysia, enclaved within the state of Selangor, on the central west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Since the 1990s, the city has played host to international sporting, political and cultural events including the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Kuala Lumpur has undergone rapid development in recent decades and it is home to the tallest twin buildings in the world, the Petronas Twin Towers, which have become an iconic symbol of Malaysias futuristic development. Kuala Lumpur means muddy confluence, kuala is the point where two rivers join together or an estuary, and lumpur means mud. One suggestion is that it was named after Sungai Lumpur, it was recorded in 1824 that Sungei Lumpoor was the most important tin-producing settlement up the Klang River. It has also proposed that Kuala Lumpur was originally named Pengkalan Lumpur in the same way that Klang was once called Pengkalan Batu. Another suggestion is that it was initially a Cantonese word lam-pa meaning flooded jungle or decayed jungle, there is however no firm contemporary evidence for these suggestions other than anecdotes. It is also possible that the name is a form of an earlier. It is unknown who founded or named the settlement called Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur was originally a small hamlet of just a few houses and shops at the confluence of Sungai Gombak and Sungai Klang before it grew into a town. The miners landed at Kuala Lumpur and continued their journey on foot to Ampang where the first mine was opened

Chinese New Year
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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival in modern Mainland China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Celebrations traditionally run from the preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New Year falls

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Prayers and simple offerings to the gods.

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Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown, Manhattan.

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House decorated for the New Year.

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Chinese new year in Singapore chinatown.

Tropical Storm Vamei
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Tropical Storm Vamei was a Pacific tropical cyclone that formed closer to the equator than any other tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. The last storm of the 2001 Pacific typhoon season, Vamei developed on December 26 at 1. 4° N in the South China Sea and it strengthened quickly and made landfall along extreme southeastern Peninsular Malaysia.

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Vamei shortly before landfall

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TRMM image of Vamei near landfall

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Radar image of Vamei from USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)

Lee Chong Wei
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Dato Lee Chong Wei DSPN DB DCSM is a Malaysian professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012, Lee is triple silver medalist at the Olympic Games, and the sixth Malaysian to win an Olympic medal. He won his first silver medal in 2008, also the first ti

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Lee at the 2013 French Open Superseries.

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Playing in the semifinals of the 2008 Olympics

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Playing in the semifinals of the 2012 Olympics

Muhammad V of Kelantan
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Muhammad V is the 15th and the current Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and the Sultan of Kelantan. He was proclaimed Sultan of Kelantan on 13 September 2010, succeeding his father, Sultan Ismail Petra and he was proclaimed as Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 13 December 2016. Born Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra ibni Sultan Ismail Petra in Kota Bharu and he

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Kelantan Royal Family

Kingdom of Singapura
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The Kingdom of Singapura was a Malay kingdom thought to exist on the island of Singapore from 1299 until its fall in 1398. Archaeological evidence from Fort Canning and the banks of the Singapore River has nevertheless demonstrated the existence of a thriving settlement. The settlement developed in the 13th or 14th century and rose from a small Sri

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Depiction of Malay warriors of ancient Singapura on a relief in Fort Canning Park, Singapore.

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14th-century gold armlets and rings in East Javanese style, found at Fort Canning Hill, Singapore, displayed in the Singapore History Gallery of the National Museum of Singapore

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An artist's impression of Parameswara, the last king of Singapura.

Singapore
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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, sometimes referred to as the Lion City or the Little Red Dot, is a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the tip of peninsular Malaysia. Singapores territory consists of one island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation

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Raffles Square around 1900.

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Flag

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Victorious Japanese troops marching through Singapore City after the British capitulation at the Battle of Singapore in 1942.

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A cheering crowd welcome the return of British forces, 1945

UTC
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Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated to UTC, is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean time at 0° longitude. It is one of closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, the first Coordinated Universal Time was i

Bandar Sunway
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Sunway is a township in Subang Jaya, Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. The township is governed by the MPSJ and partially by the MBPJ, köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical rainforest. Sunway has a number of options for tourists and business travellers. Sunway Pyramid is a shopping centre opened in July

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Aerial view of Bandar Sunway (looking northeast) in February 2011.

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Front facade of Sunway Pyramid shopping mall.

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Sunway Lagoon amusement park.

Petaling Jaya
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Petaling Jaya is a major Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur. It is located in the Petaling District of Selangor with an area of approximately 97.2 square kilometres, Petaling Jaya was granted city status on 20 June 2006. Petaling Jaya is surrounded by the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur to the east, Sungai

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Petaling Jaya

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The Kota Darul Ehsan arch over the Federal Highway, as seen from the Kuala Lumpur side.

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The Amcorp Mall & Business Centre as seen from the Taman Jaya LRT station.

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Aerial view of Bandar Sunway in Feb 2011.

Selangor
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Selangor /səˈlæŋə/ also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or Abode of Sincerity is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and it surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which we

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The Kota Darul Ehsan arch over the Federal Highway, which was built to commemorate the cession of Kuala Lumpur by Selangor to the federal government to form a Federal Territory.

Sunway Group
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Sunway Group or Sunway Berhad is a Malaysian conglomerate company. It was formed following a merger between Sunway City Berhad and Sunway Holdings Berhad on 23 August 2011, Sunway Holdings Incorporated Berhad commenced operations in 1986, mainly to develop the Bandar Sunway township in Petaling Jaya. It was listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berha

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Sunway Group

Bukit Bintang
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Bukit Bintang is the shopping and entertainment district of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It encompasses Jalan Bukit Bintang and its surrounding areas. The area has long been Kuala Lumpurs most prominent retail belt that is home to many shopping centres, al-fresco cafés, bars, night markets. This area is popular among tourists and locals, especially amon

Kuala Lumpur
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Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, or more commonly called KL is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city. Being rated as an Alpha world city, Kuala Lumpur is the global city in Malaysia which covers an area of 243 km2 and has an estimated population of 1.73 million as of 2016. Greater Kuala Lumpur,